Frankly. I do not think there is a better time. The United States has suddenly done an about face on the refugee absorption loan guarantees that we intimated. suggested. implied. even recommended. on behalf of Israel so that she could resettle immigrants whose emigration we made possible. We have a window of opportunity. Mr. President. to provide a haven for those refugees from persecution. from harassment. from a long history of secondclass citizenship. As we begin to see the disintegration of the socalled Soviet Union. we see the emergence of various hate groups. of antiSemitism. of threats to the wellbeing of these people. and we have made their emigration a major focus of our foreign policy. Now is the change to help complete the cycle. Mr. President. The administration has Inadvisedly decided to link the refugee absorption loan guarantees with the peace process. These are separate issues. One of the things I believe the administration should have done as it tried to maneuver a peace conference was to say to the people in the Arab world with whom we do business. people who purport to be our friends. that you ought to lift the embargo against companies that do business with Israel.
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